There are many examples of displaced belief that most self-identified "atheists" don't even question.

perhaps, gare, the more relevant puzzle lay within figuring out:

• who should (and should not) be levying liabilities on others
• who should (and should not) have liabilities levied against them
• when one should (or, should not) be levying liabilities against another, to begin with

?

as, i feel compelled to advise — debt, of itself, is not inherently bad; it is, rather, those who do the levying, who normally wreak the problems for that dynamic.

There are, of course, reasons to tax or to hold someone as being in "debt" of some kind. Public works, paid for by the public. A criminal who needs to make restitution after being rehabilitated.

Debt, it seems to me, is most often used as a cudgel to bludgeon the poor to death with. It seems that it's only necessary to ensure the social strata remain in place with the rich at the top and the poor at the bottom.

But, of course, those who do it, who tend to see it as necessary, also tend to be the ones with greed in their heart, and greed is the cause of many types of evil.

´t'is why, maybe around 12 or 14 years ago, i'd arrived to the conclusion 🅶🆁🅴🅴🅳 has been our

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for the longest time now

this makes the most sense to me.

though, inda, i still have no easy solution for this Greed Problem which, euphemistically-speaking, wouldn't invoke a mass "reset button"

These greed-driven people simply don't understand how enslaved they are. We don't have to do a thing. The contradictions in their activity will ultimately reveal it to them. The question is: "Are we ready to embrace freedom?"